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Excerpt from Lincoln's Teacher: A BiographyAS collaborator of a biography of Mentor Graham, Lincoln's teacher, a large unused residue of my material was filed away. Since my part of the research had covered the Ken tucky years, this matter concerned the childhood, early manhood and early teaching of Graham. Now, in View of the current furor over public school education in this country, this material has taken on such significant value as to ma...

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In 1884, young Corabelle Fellows, well-educated and gently bred, overcame her parents' objections and left her upper-calss home in Washington D.C. to become a church-sponsored teacher among the Indian people of Dakota Territory. For the next several years, she taught English, art, and domestic science on Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Cheyenne River reservations. In return for her friendship, the students affectionately gave her the name Blue Star. ...